Despite opposition and no scientific basis, the Coalition Government has decided to conduct a pilot cull of badgers in England this year in a misguided attempt to solve the bovine TB crisis. Please write to PM David Cameron to express your opposition.

Five horses at the Cheltenham Festival were killed this year after only two days of racing. This catastrophe has caused the England festival to be watched very carefully by animal welfare organizations. Any type of horse racing can be tremendously

More than 4,000 beagles suffered and died in experiments in the UK in 2009, and tens of thousands more were used worldwide. A company which sells beagles into the vivisection trade has recently applied for planning permission to build a new facility in

The circus name that became synonymous with animal cruelty has gone animal free, says Animal Defenders International.
What a difference a decade has made.
Animal Defenders International (ADI) has learnt that at long last, Chipperfields' Circus

Jim Paice, the Coalition Government's Agriculture Minister, has astonished and outraged animal welfare groups and scientists alike, with the announcement that farmers could be licensed to exterminate badgers in a misguided attempt to control bovine

BBC News - The glamour model made the appeal during a visit to the Horse Refuge, based in Wittersham, near Tenterden.
Sanctuary owner Sara Ross was unable to raise £600,000 needed to buy the land and avoid eviction on 12 August.

Elephants, tigers and other wild animals will be banned from the family circuses under new animal welfare rules.
Widespread outrage at the use of animals will see the family circus tamed. Only domesticated animals, such as rabbits, cats and dogs,

Your final chance to bring the curtain down?
Many of you will be concerned about the ongoing use of wild animals in circuses in this country, and the problems with the welfare of these animals; and many of you will also have voiced your opinions on

Despite all the consultation & talking, Pit Ponies have been left out of the protection of the new UK Animal Welfare Act. Although they are used to such treatment it seems wrong that whilst other animals will enjoy the full protection of the new Animal